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Crackdown On Cronyism?
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Ministers are drawing up plans for political parties to have to publicly justify why they are appointing peers to the House of Lords.
Will it help combat “cronyism” in the second chamber? Hugo Rifkind unpacks the politics of the day, and all the other stuff, with Times columnists James Marriott and Melanie Reid.
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